First of all I'm really glad to have found out about Lucid dreaming. I'm from the Netherlands and even though I'm bi-lingual my English is flawed in some instances. Please excuse me for any spelling errors or bad vocabulary.

Since an early age I've had very vivid dreams, but I never thought it meant anything until I found this website. Last night I watched 2 documentaries, read some articles on the website and got started straight away. I started my dream journal this morning and I have a question for anyone reading this. In the documentaries I watched (on youtube) I found out about reality checks (looking at your hands for instance) and also discovered you can come into contact with your subconscious self by asking questions to dream characters.

Anyway I forgot to do the reality checks in my dream, but I did ask one of the dream characters (who happened to be my dad) what he represents and I got an answer. So here's the question: Would you say this is the start of lucid dreaming?

Sorry this isn't really an introduction to myself, but I didn't know what to say, so I just started here

Yes I do, but I'd like to keep that private because it's something personal which needs a lot of explaining. I wasn't able to control everything in the dream though, so how would you say I manage to do that?

hey there, u had a LD b4 posting a single post here, wow .. u r upto a good start. but u didnt mention how long u been trying to achieve lucidity. if its just a start, be patient, i got my first LD within one week after introducing to LD. and also Welcome to the group. here u got lots of experienced Lucid dreamers. use this site well.

illiminator wrote:Yes I do, but I'd like to keep that private because it's something personal which needs a lot of explaining. I wasn't able to control everything in the dream though, so how would you say I manage to do that?

That's cool but I understand. However the lucid part means you were aware it was a dream. The control part to me is a side effect of being lucid.

Is Lucid Dreaming the brains preparation for the next step of human evolution when we can escape the corporeal bond of our bodies?